Isabelle Ebanda
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Isabelle Ebanda (born 23 February 1936) is a Cameroonian politician.


Early life and education

Ebanda was born Isaballe Massoma in
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on 23 February 1936. She trained as a teacher at
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Deputy Teacher's Training School. She then obtained a degree from the Lycée General-Leclerc in 1957.


Career

Ebanda began teaching at the Mbanga public school in 1958, then moved to the Lycée des jeans filled de New-Bell in Douala in 1970. Ebanda joined the
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in 1959 and was a delegate at the party's departmental office in Wouri. When the single party
Cameroonian National Union The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM; , RDPC) is the ruling political party in Cameroon. Previously known as the Cameroonian National Union, which had dominated Cameroon politics since independence in the 1960s, it was renamed in 1985 ...
was created in 1966, she became president of its Women's Organisation. Ebanda was elected as a member of the
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for Wouri in 1970. She was the first woman deputy in the province of
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. In 1974, she became a member of the parliamentary committees for finance, constitutional law, education and social affairs. She left the National Assembly in 1988. In 1988, Ebanda was appointed an Officer in the Europe Division of the
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. She was later promoted to Head of
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. In 2002, she was appointed president of the National Elections Observatory in Douala. In 2013, Ebanda was the special guest at a ceremony for reconciliation in Wouri.


Awards and honours

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for Noble Acts for the Preservation of Peace and Concord in Cameroon, 2000


References

Living people 1936 births People from Douala 20th-century Cameroonian women politicians 20th-century Cameroonian politicians Members of the National Assembly (Cameroon) {{Cameroon-politician-stub